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Nik Wallenda has performed his first practice walk on the tightrope he'll use to walk above Niagara Falls next month.
Several alleged members of an upstate New York stolen goods ring that's blamed for the 2010 death of a comic book collector again entered not guilty pleas to federal murder and racketeering charges Tuesday after a grand jury revised its indictment.
The license plate on movie projectionist Arnie Herdendorf's Buick is 35MM MAN, a nod to his work in the booth at the 1925 Palace Theatre, with its velvet-draped stage and chandeliered mezzanine.
First Niagara Bank said Friday it expects its $1 billion purchase of HSBC Bank's upstate New York retail operations to be completed by mid-May and is making plans to consolidate 35 locations where First Niagara and HSBC have buildings within a mile or two of each other.
Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on Indian lands near the U.S.-Canadian border as part of the White House's newly released strategy for reducing the flow of illegal drugs and drug proceeds between the two countries.
Before photographer Milton Rogovin began documenting the lives of the poor and working class, the U.S. government was documenting Rogovin, relying on a network of informants in an era of paranoia toward suspected communists.
Facebook and its founder will try to have a man's lawsuit claiming part ownership of the $50 billion social networking website thrown out of court after securing proof the contract on which it's based is fake, a Facebook attorney said Tuesday.
More than eight years ago, ESPN and a Syracuse newspaper had an audiotape on which the wife of a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach now accused of sex abuse said she knew "everything that went on" with him.
A former U.S. Navy seaman who killed two people during an Independence Day 1977 bus hijacking in New York City and had been in an upstate prison was deported Wednesday to his native Panama.
Immigrant rights advocates and the New York Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday accused the Border Patrol in upstate New York of abusing its authority by questioning the citizenship of train and bus passengers, as well as people going about their business in towns miles away from any international crossing.
The city that put Love Canal and Superfund in the environmental lexicon may get back into the business of dealing with toxic waste — this time willingly.
Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low.
Taunted since grade school for hanging out with girls, 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer told his parents things were finally getting better since high school started. Meanwhile, on a blog his parents didn't know about, he posted increasingly desperate notes ruminating on suicide, bullying, homophobia and pop singer Lady Gaga.
Wilson Greatbatch, whose invention of the implantable cardiac pacemaker has kept millions of hearts beating in rhythm, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Police are investigating whether criminal charges should be filed after the suicide of a New York teenager who had discussed his sexual orientation online and reported being bullied.
A Canadian truck driver who pleaded guilty Wednesday to smuggling cocaine in the floorboards of his truck was part of an operation that sent more than 1 1/2 tons of drugs across the U.S. border into Canada since 2009, federal authorities said.
As he maneuvered his passenger-packed, double-decker boat toward the wall of falling water rising 170 feet before him, Senior Capt. Malcolm Bunting's words on shore a few minutes earlier became crystal clear, especially as the enveloping spray made the view from the wheelhouse anything but.
A judge on Wednesday gave Facebook access to the personal email accounts of a man suing for half ownership of the social networking website and ordered him to explain why he can't produce documents its lawyers believe are evidence.
Tightrope walker Nik Wallenda appears to have won over U.S. officials with his plans for a made-for-television walk across Niagara Falls on a high wire, but he still faces a tough sell in Canada, where a parks official said Wednesday the proposal lacks key support.
Still in the glow of midnight marriages across New York, hundreds of gay couples were expected to marry on Sunday on the first full day that same-sex weddings were legal in the Empire State.
Still in the glow of midnight marriages across New York, hundreds of gay couples are expected to marry on the first full day same-sex weddings are legal in the Empire State.
Families suing over the 2009 plane crash of a Continental Connection flight into a house near Buffalo, which killed 50 people, will be allowed to pursue unlimited punitive damages from the flight's operators, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Operator error was to blame for an amputee Iraq war veteran's deadly fall from a roller coaster and the amusement park was cited for having improperly trained workers, state officials said Friday.
Here's a little quiz for the breakfast table:
Daredevil Nik Wallenda said it's been his dream to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls so he was overwhelmed Wednesday when New York lawmakers voted to let him give it a try.
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